The evening world. Newspaper, June 21, 1913, Page 9

es | { “The Tango? “The Argentine, People Say, Is the Home of the Tango, but in Our Lowest Conceri Halls You Do Not See It Danced as in American Ball- rooms—Of Course, OUR Women Would Not Think of Dancing It—We Officers Are Learning| It Because, at Every Port We Enter, Society Women Are Dancing It.” —‘ fact, I gathered @ lot of tango informa- By Eleanor Schorer. saucy cutter met our party and took us aboard the tango ship. Weil, did I get my thrills? you ask. Did I have that wild, tango, turbulent afternoon T Was 80 eager about? Most emphatically I did not. Imagine my amazement to find the y shy at the mere mention Dance it? Oh, they pre- ferred not to, they said in their quaint blending of 8 h and English, No- body--that 18, nobody who pretended to be anybody at all—dances the tango in Argentina, they explained. It is looked \ \ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1913. Our Ladies of the Argentine |‘‘It Will Be Much Harder to Get a Cigarette = in Hell Than It Is To-Day in Indiana” OD a if Come a * Blush at the Name of the Daring Dance’’ —An Officer of the Presidente Sarmiento. real tango! now. waited breal feet. It was a slight variation from our ‘The only new step to me was one In which the gentleman crept along the floor with a short sidewise heel and toe stop similar to the Hawallan “hoola hoola” and the jalked the very tamest form of tango. jady utrned sideways and space, as shown in the picttire. They, ‘The thrills were coming Two saliors appeared while we jd they did thoir steps for us in mitties and bare brown too, had the short, jerkey steps which Protective League of The Doctor Is the President of the Non-Smokers’ tive Views on Men and Women “‘Who Suck the America, and Has Posi- 1 omething terrifie, unmention-| the officers dscd, j form in Ar-|tlon on that visit, and what I saw and | Upon as somet! J ei 1 ae ena Ant eee oem in Aug| heard astonlaned-—almost. bewildered {0% There Is an tronciad’ban against | fo this was the disgraceful tango. Poisonous Weed — The Smoker Will Have a \ iGanehe, Whe bd Ot) Ha erigin, MOYER In polite circles, Well, well, well! What would tuey Special Hell of His 0: A Mixt of ‘N were to sugtest to an Argentine lady|™ received an invitation to be{, We Mould never have thought of|say to our ballrooms crowded with pect e 8 Own—. ure of Craving Of refinement that she dance the tango an invitation to be jearning the dince at home,” remarked | Heasics and Bobs dipping and swaying, @he would be exceedingly embarrassed, | ONC Of @ party at tea aboars the vessel | one Licurenant, “but we have been anx- | bending low and twisting much? for Tobacco and Remorse for a Habit Which Im fact, it Is not considered very nico]! Was all In a flutter. The very thought] lous to learn it lately, because the] What of the close fitting grape vine Poisoned Him and His Fellow Men.”’ Se antion the dance among rej mace,me eiddy ladies tn all the ports we visit want to|step with which the girls and boys even Toh that landethe lane. and startling # dance it." undulate along the floor? I'm afraid e apectable people of that lan: 1d the tango !s danced to in its native| With a great deal of persuasion and/they never would recover from the By Nixola Greeley-Smith. of the tango. land, I looked forward to a whirlwind| very catchy music we managed to In-| shock, P nd wh thi rf And yet, the tango—the original, 8!-| afternoon that would have me gasping| duce two officers to dance. Thelr stepe| But the handsome, tanned officers ‘ause, men and women who suck the poisonous weed, tobacco, and feen-pure tango of Argentina--ls a very| for a week to come. I knew It was to| were different, quite, from ours, having| certainly could waltz most beautifully, |hearken to the warning of Dr. Charles G. Pease, who appeared before the q mil@ and tame affair compared to the| be a tango tea, the like of which envious | @ quick, short extra step with the right/ and they , took quite kindly to the Public Service Commission on Thursday of this week to protest against the New York nq@Wer enjoyed. My nerves| foot, and there were NO DIPS. Boston and one-step walts hey hich Is just now ee ane waciety poopie, | Were at high tension, one—all my practising for noth! learned it quickly and well. Dresence of smokers on the rear the rage among our s ss “ne | J Set out to practise my ateps, 1 did] “We don't dance the real tango,” they) ction tangot That, 01 iginatea tn seats of street cars, in restaurants, iy wv tiig fee ‘apagtieg ved " ©)all the “dips” that I knew over and| confessed, “but there are sailors aboard | \emain’ ther CERISE Set BESS Toof gardens, in all places, in fact, Presidente Sarmiento, the naval train-| over and over, until the last minute, and| who can, and we'll have them dance!’ ‘The name of their awingiest tango ie -smo! ing vessel from that country, which is}{ had to rush madly to the foot of| tor you." is ‘, which ppl mnere: Bee Kern denuregete: and new anchored in the North River, In|Thirty-ifth street, where the little] 0, happy day! We were to see the . become lable to contamination. ieee nn = sane Every time the smoker smokes, ac- cording to Dr. Pease, he “commits| LORRO AT PLAY AND AT WORK. an sstault upon the ecnatuon ot CL the non-smoker,” who is, of course, \ SAS entitled to protection, and, if he} ay -~—Cé«Being a Kevised Version of the Rollo Books and. eG doesn't get that, to DAMAGES. Not Written by Jacob Abbott of the Well Known Family of That Name.) | WOTICK TO PARENTS. j Abbott,"" which shows how bitter their LTHOUGH th's work is intendet |hearts have become through envy. A Principally as a means for the| But, anyway, Lorro entered the office entertainment of Ittle readers, ;and sald “Oh, dear me!" ft is hoped by the writer that it may aid in accomptishing certain trouble- “Bully, Lorro!’* suid Theodore, the Contributing Hired Man. “I am dee- lighted! What can I do to you?” “I wish these boards would not split Up #0 when I try to nail them to- gether,” sald Lorro, “The only way,” sald the Hired Man, “to get things together 's to split them wide open. Then Mr. Munsey, who Is nearly as good @ grocer as he is an editor, will come around and fix every- thing up for you--on paper—one of his which the incidents of the narrative and the conversations arising from them are E| intended to awaken the reasoning and reflective faculties of the little readers and now and then to wake them up. & In promoting the progress of little ones in READING and in knowledge of language. Those who read these pi carefully can learn how to write like a} Mayor with whiskers—to nobody, nols- ily, about nothing, % In cultivating the AMIABLE AND GENTLE QUALITIPS OF THE BART. T enes are laid in a quiet ' aad virtuous life, where even Lyman APbott drinks no more than Our Hero, the Contributing Hired Man, The au- thor regrets having to bring the sinful But Lorro was discouraged about everything, He watched Theodore trun- dle a whelbarrow along toward the har- vester shed. “Let us leave the wheelbarrow stand- ing here,” said Theodore to the little boy, “and not look at it for a time, and maybe something will happen which will Indifferent whether the How- @ their money out of the con- cern or not.” And, sure enough, when they returned to the wheelbarrow it was full of nice bright green kale, Lorro, arming himself with & hatchet, sat on the edge of the wheelbarrow and guarded the kale, He did not know that the Howlands were far away, making friends with Hammy Holt—who drinks jeven less than 'ncle Lyman and has not smiled in nineteen years, From the woods came cries like those of a per- son who had been stung, “It sounds like Cousin George or Gif- sald Theodore, “Call to him, If it 1» Gifford he will come out red ‘It tan't Gifford,” eaid Theodore, “Ask him what he has got?" “Fiftyefitty and a square deal,” an- swered the vol Which proves to us, little ones, that better to be called good than to Howlands into this narrative, but as ‘eeem to have invented the Out In Millions Sp North German Lloyd Paid $4,920,000 for Provisions Last Year, While the Coal Man's Bill Was $7,376,735. N these days when the high coat of ] lving ts so much in the public mind it ty Interesting to know what it coste a steamship company to provide the necessities of life to the hordes of Passengers who cross and recross the Atlantic. The annual statement of the North German Lloyd for 192, just is- sued, throws some Interesting light the subject. Last year the company's bill for provisions ulone was $4,920,000, while during the same perlod the coal man was pald $7,376,735 for 1,758,740 tons of coal. For these two items alone— provisions and coal—the company paid the enormous sum of $12,295,735, and tne he existence of the Outlook was| sreater part of this fortune dropped Into ying of Theodore's salary. Ho| the coffers of Uncle Sam. ands have got into the habit] That reasickness does not always in- of Lerro Contents. ZORRO AT PLAY. @ummary of Story No, 1—Lorro at Peay in the Outlook OMice, The Set- (ing Out, sometimes known as the Plant. George Perkins, the Tie that the Harvester Trus. Hearts Hearta Right Again, Good Feusta and Bad. @me pleasant and profitable morning the Contribu ing Hired Man up on the elevator In the Ch tle Building and wae told ¢ trouble all over the lot, The Naughty Newlands and Uncle Lyman Abbott and were in an awful mess to decide themselves who invented Thi ‘The Howlands aid {f they | id i Addo! 32 as “the terfere with the appetite of ocean trav- of almost $5,000,000 for provisions, The bute: as usual, reaped t harvest in the matter of provisions, his bill for the year having been $1,6%,000. This does not Include fish and game; for the former the company paid an ad- ditional $289,060, while the bill for gams amounted to 12,580, @ total of 9868,020, These two items, added to the bill for meat proper, brought the amount up to $2,307,000, In our household expenditures we are not likely to pay much attention to the cost of preserves, and yet the North German Lloyd spent $25,160—over @ quarter of @ million dollars—for these sweets during the year, The bill for fresh vegetables amounted to $128,110, while for “sundries,* including Dread, four, apices, fruits and the thousand- Jand-one articles that are used in the Kitchen, the company pald $1,690,490, More potatoes were consumed durini the year than any other single arte! the total amount having been 17,876, pounds, Flour ranked next with 6m3,- 152 pounds, fresh beef third with 6,160,184 pounds, while bread was fourth with ent to Feed Ocean Travellers. sumed 7,006,500 eggs, 4, |!emons, 707.6% pounds of ontons and 983,802 pounds of aalt. tea and 629,619 cans of sterilized milk, to gay nothing of 14,918 botties of fret cream, fires and “lights.” ‘the quantity of butter ne the year was 1,066,087 pound: Of wines, popula: bottles pagne. heading the list with 113,21 of course, was the favor. about_one qu GOT IT ON HIM. “Are you atiFe you are able to auppor my daughter and provide her with everything ehe wants?” ‘T am," Company, Mr, clleve 9 evidenned by the empenditure 3.ma03 pounds, ‘ihe ‘paseengem oome'Fremn poe iees Tre ‘They used 465,310 pounds of coffee and 41,729 pounds of It was necessary to provide 19,119,442 pounds of ice to keep thingy cool and 12,007 boxes of matches for In the bakeshops 83,651 pounds of yeast were used, while ary during Rhein and Mosel were most against %,987 bottles of cham- ite beverage, 302,621 botties having been consumed in addition to 1,720,434 liters of beer In barrela, @ liter being equal to a heen! ml nisin cn ani After the hearing was ov: ‘Now, perhaps, there will be more ear- casm from those who read the views of Dr, Pease as he expressed them yesterday in his office at No. 101 West Seventy-second street. But before they grow too hilarious let them reflect that when Dr. Pease and the other two thou- sand members of the Non-mokers’ Protective League of America, of which he is President, have thelr way smokers will not be permitted to emoke in public or private—no tobacco will be grown, in fact, and, worse yet, they may nof ercise that last privilege of the unregene- rate and smoke in the life to come, Por Dr. Pease told me yester- Gay that in hell it will be much harder to get a cigarette than it is to-day in Indiana. “When the smoker passes into the other life his craving for tobacco will continue, but he will not have the abil- ity to gratify it," was Dr. Peane's way of expreming his very novel idea. will have a special hell of his ow which will be a mixture of craving for tobacco and remorse for his Indulgence In @ habit which polsoned him and his fellow men. Hin remorse will, of course, ‘be intensified dally by the arrivals of other spirite who will say to him ‘Look at what you did to me, You destroyed me with a poisonous habit!" I am not prepared to eay that this punishment will be eternal,” Dr. mildly, “Perhaps his continued remorse will put an end to It in time." This should be good news for the amoker except for the fact that his frat action on getting out would he to make for a celestial cigarette stand. And then, of course, there would be one more smoke-and Finnegan would be a " the doctor added, “one of the Commissioners complimented me on the quantity of the evidence I submitted for the non- smokers. The other side presented no evidence at all. casm, the last resource of those who have no evidence.” Pease continued | Dr. Pease exulted yes- “Up to that time they had mentioned damages they woke up. It indulged in sar- t mokers, but Dr, Pease says that every little habit has an inferno of its own—that the man who imbfbes that other polron, alcohol, will be eternally ‘beset by phantom cocktails and wraith- ly rickeys when he crosses to the other Ife, And, of course, they will be al- ways fust beyond his grasp when he has crossed the bar. As for what is Known as @ “chaser"—the human, not the liquid variety—nhe will give a per- petual imitation of the young man on the Grecian Urn—atil!, still must be pur- he far. ) It will be good news to those who “suck thelr poison through @ straw instead of from a weed" that drinking is not nearly so deadly @ habit As amoking, in Dr, Pease's opinion. “The tnebriate polsons only himself. poison are more Im- said the foe of Inatunce, he may go @ violent language to his wife or even strike her,” but his habit does not vitiate futuro generations. Tobacco enters into the tissues and fulde and has its effect on — man's children. In fact, {t destroys him as a or, * eco ts go violent @ Dr, Pease continued, “that the | Indians dipped their ‘rows in it to make them deadly, If @ man who smokes takes a bath and allows the water to soo! and a fly drops in it, the fly will die instantly, If he should blow in again. Poromaliz 4 Gent case Wheat bagecss: smoke on # sheet of paper and afte ‘ard scrape away the spot and drop @ bit of the discolored scrapings on a cat's tongue, the cat would die. When/ @ man smokes the first timo ho ts mado/ il, poisoned invariably, If he con-} tinues, nevertheless, in this manly habit of sucking poison, he induces @ state of abnormality ip bimesif and is no jonger mado il, though tke tebeseo “SETORE I LEFT WoOVL? waver keeps on vitlating his tissues. Never-)% per cent. of them to be defective non: “You should have seen the faces of | c the representatives of the railroads the constitutions of others and upom| to-day by the fact that many womed when I told the Public Service Com- missionors ‘that persons assaulted | Smok by the poison of tobacco in public places should be entitled to legal damag terday. been rather indifferent, but when I generations to come. Mary, (populace whi the toxic effects yourself, not Immune—not at al yourself that way. Pease, who Nke what you imagine him to be. i 4e mid mannered. When he converses| He said it in just the aweet, courteste weneration of a family of bankers, —Dr. Charles G. Pease. PROMISED WE aan? GOR Pease) she waote a Bonwswe cetveR OT PROTEST TOTHE PUBLIC SERIE LOM. THE REMORSE OF THE SMOKER 1H HELL AND mie ACCUSING SEIRITS a ‘beless, he gives out nicotine poison to | That is appalling, and tobacco . jokers with in seating Oa Wy are made wore ere beginning to smoke, thus In other words, Mr. Smoker and Mme.|the chances of race puisoning by ter you are just a sort of ‘“Typhold | bacco." ‘ around polsoning the| “In view of this tact, have you a@ ous parently immune to} the other members of the Non-mokerw? But you're ve League any hope of acsem § Don't comfort | plishing your reform?’ I asked. fl “Our aim ts to acquaint people with 5 Moreover, don't imagine that this Dr. | the dangers,” Dr, Pease replied. “am@ | (Ag teats you so, ts anything Hela lanche.” bject than smoking he| way with which I am sure Don Quizete = je belonged to the second | might have explained his titt with 4 windmill, had any one been tooortioall But when he talks about smokers his| enough to ask him about it. eye flashes, his arm shoots forth in “Since the hearing by the Publle Sere ‘ure of denunciation and his tones| viee Commasio: added, “au the © foll resonantly out like @ pulpit orator’s., members of the society—we have 2,680 Now, reformers interest me very much| and about 10,000 associate members More completely than any other human| have been writing letters to the Come beings. They represent what has been mission protesting against public polaame termed the triumph of hope over ex-|ing by smokers. I had o very gratifying 5 perience. Anything thusiagm, whether It's being a martyr] cluded. “As I was standing in the agi yourself or insisting upon the martyr-| way station on my way to attend ome ef J dom of somebody elise, has for me a|our meetings a man and woman entered, peculiar interest and fascination. Nev-|the man smoking a cigar, I went wr ertheless, I couldn't help feeling that| to \im and sald, ‘You are under aswest? Dr. Poase has tackled @ large job, So]—any citizen can make an arrestwand & | T nald to bi proceeded to explain to him how he Waa af "Do you believe that any habit, how-|Polsoning himself, the public and geRne ever pernicious, which has a hold ‘ations yet to come. His wite . oe On, he only smokes one o day, am & have tried to ade him to give Pa the entire human race can he eradi- cated? Suppose, fo inatanes you shoull be endowed aitidenly with sbso-| UP.’ Then the husband sald. ‘T thints lute power, how would you prevent the|°W® my Wife an apoloxy for I smoking habtt, the drinking habit or] ‘het | a any other past i y pastime with which you are ! e ur tar Soe Zz than you do, because you sacrifices her not In sympathy?” love your wi Td forbid the growing of tobaces,”| vines to a vulgar habit, You ‘rome her by continuing to suck polson’ Seas” ‘ 1, Dr. Pease replied, “and I'd forbid the distillation and fermentation of malt the women begnm #9 lear, let's go home now,' said the happily.” ani grains, ‘That would be easy. The late Empress of China, a so-called And they lived happily ever afterwam. ee ee fr to the man's Before I left he had promised me 1 would never smoke again. heathen, forbade the growing of Is ry poppy, the oplur of the Kast, but here| 4 so-called Christiang will not forbid the growing of tobacoo, the opium of the West.” “But if tobacco ta really so deadly as you believe,” 1 interrupted, hy does not the race show visible deterio; “A bad mens,” declared the since its Introduction. Going ‘a mt mail our old friend, Sir Walter Raleigh, who| answered and the typewriter haw ta sald to have introduced it into Eng. | !eft.” Jand, do you think we have degener-| “The oMfce boy is always teat @round that macdine," su Undoubtedly we have degenerated,”| senior partner, “Put him in De, Pease replied. “A receht report en Jato ox) zoe Da oan St on the condition ef sohes! chtigren showed! Aitten"—FReareD , x A RECRUIT.